"nate" <schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu> on 03/07/99 06:50:40 AM
Please respond to xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
cc: (bcc: David H Kirshner/dkirsh/LSU)
Subject: Re: like a Jeopardy question
Not to take anything from Diane, there is no doubt she is the
winner and should receive the prize. But as the references to
Marx, Mao, Lenin etc suggest the phrase seems to come from a
common philosophical tradition. Yaroshevsky mentions Lewin
stopping through Moscow to visit Vygotsky on his lecturing tour
in China (1933). The Mao quote and Lewin's seen to be saying
more or less the same thing. Reading the Mao article on
practice, he puts the quote in the context of Marx's theory in
that he created a "break" in how knowledge/reality is
understood.
Nate
Nate
-----Original Message-----
From: Diane HODGES <dchodges who-is-at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: like a Jeopardy question
>Ladeeeeeez an' Gentleeeeeeeen, we HAVE a WINNAAAH!
>
>Kurt Lewin, 1940:"If you want to understand something, try to
change it."
>quoted in:
>
>Noffke, S. (1997) "Professional, personal, and political
dimensions of
>Action Research." In M. Apple (Ed.) Review of Research in
Education.
>(Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association)
p. 304.
>
>gleefully gloating,diane
>
>